Derpy had been periodically hovering around the outside of her house for a few hours, scanning every inch of her premises for Demon Steves. Her house is in a tree, which she recently moved into, mainly because with the leaves of the tree, it looks like a muffin as well as to help herself and Dinky move on from Madness Steve. Both of them have been scarred by what he done to them. This tree is separated from all other the other trees, only a flat land with grass surrounding the tree. All the windows are able to be looked out of, thick long green leaves covers them. On the tree stump are 2 rails for a ladder, which is lifted up off the ground for obvious reasons. This leads to the entrance onto the house, a trapdoor. In the middle, there is a balcony that extends out of the leaves. The balcony also happen be in the shape of a muffin.

"Uh, Derpy? I don't think they're coming," Doctor Whooves stated, who is out on the wooden muffin-shaped balcony.

"I wefuse to let anything happen to Dinky again!" Derpy yelled.

"I could keep a look out while uh... you keep check on Dinky. You been flying around for hours and I don't want you to hurt yourself." Derpy eventually gives in, hovering down onto the balcony and sits, sighing as she looks down, closing her eyes.

"I just don't want Dinky to go through what she did again... am I too pawonoid, Doc?"

"No, what you're doing is your duty as a mother," Doctor Whooves replied firmly, gently tilting up Derpy's head so she's looking at him. The grey pegasus shuffles until she's right next to Doctor Whooves, to his right. She leans left, and Doctor Whooves puts his right forehoof around Derpy.

"I- Thank you..." Derpy sighed.

"It's okay, I'm by your side, always," Doctor Whooves said gently.

"I- I- I mean it... thank you, for evwething..."

"Hello? I believe Doctor Whooves is here?" Derpy remembers that voice, she swore she could at least. Derpy opens her eyes and trots to the edge, now looking down over the balcony. There is Sabre, but it's not just him.

"Doctor!? Not the pony doc- But- But THE Doctor!?"

"Yep, that's me," The Doctor replied.

"I actually not been to your house. It looks really nice, can't wait to see the inside," Sabre stated.

"Oh uh- Yeah- Let me just get the ladder down," Derpy responded back, walking back into her house. Sabre and the Doctor notice the trapdoor above being opened and ladder slowly being lowered.

"So uh, Sabre, I heard of you, but where were you from exactly? You are not from here or this overworld where the steves are from? No?" The Doctor asked.

"No, I just ended up in the overworld and met steves. Then, me and the steves met these ponies," Sabre answered.

"How exactly did the steves and Equestria meet?" The Doctor asked.

"Well, Madness Steve happened and we reformed him to Calmness Steve," Sabre replied.

"Ah, right, that'll be why," The Doctor shuddered.

"You... knew of him?"

"Yes, and if anything is worse than the Daleks, it's him. At least the Daleks just kill you on the spot instead of prolonging pain, I suppose..." The Doctor answered as he shudders again.

"Well we reformed him so-"

"Good, because I don't want to go through what I went through ever again," The Doctor replied very firmly.

"The ladder is down," Derpy shouted from above. Sabre and the Doctor started climbing up. Derpy steps back, away from the trapdoor, so the 2 could get up, into the house.


"Woah, this is a very lovely house Derpy," Sabre said slowly, with a calm and relaxed voice, just looking around the inside of the house once he got to the top of the ladder. There is 4 smooth wooden cylinder in each except a single corner, with one corner is a kitchen area, the corner that's to the left as you would come up the ladder. That corner is made of stone completely, and there's a metal pipe above a wide stove, so all the steam and heat escapes through there. There is also a white fridge that is right in that corner, around 6 feet tall.

In the corner to the right is a big gray sofa. The edges of the sofa are in the shape of a muffin. Even the cushions are muffin-shaped. In front of the sofa is a big black rectangular TV. The TV sits on a rectangular piece of wood that's hollow. In that hollow space is a TV box. There's also a table in between the TV and the sofa, there is a big rectangular table, where a black TV remote sits in the middle.

The corner to the left and right, both corners that are behind as you come up the ladder, are shelves. On the shelves are many books. There's also some of Dinky's toys, nicely organized on the shelves. On the top shelves of each corner, there are pictures of Derpy, Dinky and Doctor Whooves. There's also another unicorn mare that's a much vibrant shade of pink with a purple mane and tail.

There's wooden steps in the middle up against wooden walls painted green. Each of the 4 walls had doors that are painted light grey, with the area of the doors being made of glass, and the handles made of stone. The door on the wall to the left as you come up the leader leads to Derpy's bedroom, the one ahead leads to Dinky's bedroom, the one to the right leads to the bathroom and the one behind is to the balcony.

"Wow uh- Derpy... I'm- I thought my house looked great but- This place is amazing Derpy! You have a very nice home."

"Thanks Sabre," Derpy smiled.

"So, where's Dinky?" Sabre asked.

"She's in her room" Derpy said as she looks towards Dinky's bedroom door.

"Dinky! Sabre's here!" The door sprung open, a light pink unicorn trotting out, leaping over to Sabre and Derpy.

"Hi!"

"Hello Dinky, you doing okay?" Sabre replied back.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Anyway, I can see why you chose to stay here Derpy and- Well, as you're a pegasus, you can just fly with Dinky if you were get in trouble, so... and- And you have Doctor Whooves. I see you have it all thought out, huh," Said Sabre. Derpy nodded.

"So who's that other unicorn in the picture? I never seen her before," The Doctor asked Derpy and Dinky.

"Oh, that's Amethyst Star, she's grown up. She lives all the way in the east. So it's hard to see her. We still write letters to each other though," Dinky politely replied to the Doctor.

"What about the father?" The Doctor asked. Derpy looks down at the floor.

"Mummy doesn't like talking about him. It's complicated," Dinky answered.

"So, not a nice stallion I presume?" Said the Doctor. Dinky furiously shook her head.

"Oh uh, Doctor Whooves, hello, didn't notice you- Speaking of which... Derpy, we've actually came for him. The Doctor, he wants to speak to Doctor Whooves- I know it's confusing." Sabre notices the brown stallion walking back inside from standing out on the balcony.

"Oh, are you this... Doctor Whooves I been hearing about?" The Doctor asked, looking back up and to him. The brown stallion nodded, indicating he is Doctor Whooves.

"How did you know where we were?" Doctor Whooves politely asked.

"Oh, Rarity said you were at Derpy's home. She once delivered a dress for Dinky or something. Lots have been going on man. The demons are back, and the Doctor here, he says these things he calls Daleks, and that they're bad but they just obliterated these Demon Steves-"

"Enough said," Doctor Whooves cuts off Sabre.

"The Daleks... are death."

"And indeed you're right..." The Doctor jumped in as he looks away from the brown stallion and towards Sabre.

"Is he... me?"

"I don't know man- *Looks at Doctor Whooves* Anyway, you encountered them before?" Sabre asked as he turns his head to look at Doctor Whooves.

"Yes."

"But I don't get it. The Professor made them- Well, his students did. Surely if they did go rouge, we could just switch them off," Sabre stated.

"Oh ho ho ho, no, he didn't. I've been fighting them for a very, very long time. Every time I defeat them to the brink of extinction, there's always this... one ship that survived or something- Every time they just come back," The Doctor covers his face on both his hands and groans.

"Anyway, me and you should have a chat. You sound very like me," The Doctor said to Doctor Whooves.

"You also sound a bit like me," Doctor Whooves replied whilst nodding.

"Well, Doctor Whooves, what was your first memory?"

"I first remember some creature holding me while I was a foal. The creature places me down on top of a door mat and knocks on the door. The creature left before the door opened. That was the first ever memory I ever had. I never knew my original parents," Doctor Whooves explained to the Doctor, with a sad expression on his face, looking to the floor.

"Where was this house?" The Doctor asks next.

"It was a lovely little cottage away from the rest of Ponyville," The stallion replied.

"Why am I thinking of Fluttershy's cottage- Was her cottage originally where you lived before whenever she moved in?"

"No, but it was near her cottage. It's no longer there, because there was a fire, and only I made it out. The grown ups who took me in didn't make it. I found the Tardis, and with it, I swore to myself and find who started the fire... and in short, that's how I discovered the Daleks."

"The Daleks started this fire? They must've thought you were me as- Well, you are like a replica of me, but in pony form," The Doctor guessed.

"I now wonder if there's a pony that's similar to Clara Oswald..." The Doctor wondered to himself.

"Hello?"

"Oh yes, sorry- Right, we were talking about the two of us- How did you find your Tardis?" The Doctor next asks.

"I found it in the Everfree Forest. I went inside, and found a manual. That was when I discovered it was a time machine. It also had books how to use it and books about Time Lords, which I'm guessing that's what you are," Doctor Whooves answered. The Doctor nodded.

"Well, you seem to know the Daleks. But we're not dealing with the usual bronze Daleks. Why are they here? Do you have any guesses?" The Doctor asked.

"I... can't think of a reason. I once saw a fleet of them coming to attack Equestria one time and all I said was a single semi lie, skilled unicorns can time travel like Time Lords. Then... their whole fleet just fled, as if they didn't dare to attack," Doctor Whooves explained.

"Daleks? Scared of ponies? That's very new," The Doctor chuckled hysterically. He then stops, and his eyes open wider at the sudden realization of something. If the Daleks really did fear ponies as stupidly funny as it sounds, and they're hear regardless, it must be very important and there's a reason to it, which no one knows.

"Then something must have caught their interest, but what is it? What are they after?"

"Unless something somehow provoked them into coming here. I don't know," Doctor Whooves guessed.


"I'm just frustrated with everything," Sabre sighs as he sit down on the floor. Derpy sits down next to him on the right. Dinky meanwhile sat next to her mother. She is scared of the Demon Steves, but her mother's presence made her feel more secure.

"Me too..." Derpy replied to Sabre.

"Me three," Dinky joined in the conversation.

"The Demon Steves are back. Applejack has gone mental, probably because of the demons. Nightmare Steve is back- Who you don't even know. And then this Doctor guy comes along, who is very alike Doctor Whooves and brings up these Daleks. There's so many problems to be addressed, it's... overwhelming."

"I understand... the feeling of evwething just weighing down... I know it too well. Even though... even though the pwoblem was wesolved, you... still need to climb back to where you were, before you were drwagged down. Fwom being bullied... to being abused by somepony, and to being tortured... for what felt like an e- Eternity... it- It's difficult. I... I still haven't... recovered- You and my Doc have been... amazing, but I'm... still pwetty hurt. But... I have both of you, by my side, and I'm there in rweturn... but, I have you two, and Dinky," Derpy said lightly, her voice being gentle, keeping eye contact with Sabre, who is also looking back at her.

"Yeah- It's... always something has to go wrong. Even with Madness now being Calmness again, there's always something that has to go wrong. Seeing Nightmare again, even after all this time passed... it gave me goosebumps, Derpy. I never felt so stiff, and cold. I'm not sure if even Madness Steve made me feel like that. It just reminds me of what followed, the darkness, me being shunned... it's awful," Sabre replied back in the same light tone. He puts his right hand on Derpy's back. Derpy puts her left forehoof on Sabre's back. Dinky is in the middle, and has one forehoof around Derpy and the other around Sabre.

"We've two have become very close," Sabre said lightly.

"I think the same as you... and I'm glad you think the same about me," Derpy lightly said back.

"You okay? You sounded like you were... worried, about something," Sabre asked gently.

"I thought you'd no longer... like me..."

"Why do you think that!? You're a friend- You're alway so kind- Why would I not like you!?" Sabre exclaimed.

"I hold Doc closer to me... you helped me Sabre, but Doc... he got me thwough the worst..."

"Oh yeah, I remember- Are you saying that you and Doc are like... y'know..."

"Yeah, me and him are," Derpy blushes as she replied in an even lighter voice, almost like a whisper

"Steves do have friends, but they... they don't have... those kind of friends- I'm happy for you Derpy. I'm not mad you hold someone else closer than me. You've known Doctor Whooves for longer than me as well, so I understand," Sabre responded back.

"Thanks," Derpy replied.

"Sabre! Something terrible is happening!"

"Who what where!?" Sabre said as he and everyone turns around. They see a purple portal open, which Elemental Steve had just come out of.

"I opened a portal, because I didn't want to accidentally break something upon teleporting," Said Elemental Steve.

"What's going on Elemental?"

"Steves and ponies, they're being infected."

"In which way? Are they repeating words, more specifically, repeating 'exterminate' or something else?" The Doctor questioned Elemental Steve.

"They're eyes are completely white and the edges of their eyes gone brownish orange," Elemental Steve answered with a simple and clear answer.

"So it's not the Daleks trying to convert them..." The Doctor thought to himself.

"So not only we got Nightmare Steve to deal with, we got this Storm King dude, the Demon Steves, these Daleks the Doctor is on about... and now whoever is infecting everybody- Isn't this just great!" Sabre exclaimed as he puts his hands over his face and groans.

"All of this seems like it's all coordinated, by one or two people," Elemental Steve stated.

"We still don't know how the demons have broken out, even with the darkness rebalanced. Let's not go off track," Sabre brought up.

"Wait until the Daleks get started. I don't know why they're here either. These ones are like... high up in the Dalek hierarchy. Thought they'd send in some of the Bronze Daleks, something is up with that too," The Doctor stated.

"I mean- They are just robots, right? Isn't there some off switch somewhere?" Sabre responded.

"No, the actual Dalek is inside of that armoured casing. The actual Dalek is a squid-like creature with one eye. But it's more about the Daleks being capable of time travel. Time travel in the wrong hands is... dangerous," The Doctor explained.

"So if they are bad, we have potential enemies that could rewrite all of time if we give them the chance? Wonderful," Sabre said with a sarcastic tone.

"Preeeecisely," The Doctor responded.

"So, who do we focus on first? Now you put it this way Doctor, the Daleks are definitely a threat. But on the other hand we have the demons and whoever is infecting the steves and ponies, as well as whoever is even causing all of this as well. Plus, the Daleks are currently owning the Demon Steves. The Daleks aren't that big of an issue, yet, as... well, there's only one," Sabre asked the group.

"Yet!? One Dalek is enough to do collateral damage, let alone millions!" The Doctor exclaimed.

"Well I'm go and see what I can do about the infection," Elemental Steve responded.

"Both Doctors I'm just gonna say- The two of you, go figure out the situation on these Daleks. Me and Elemental are gonna go see what's up with this infection," Sabre instructed. With that, Sabre and Elemental Steve go through the purple portal.


Sabre and Elemental Steve are now in the Violet Kingdom. They are in the vast open flower field, where many Violet Steves are doing nothing but sitting. Sabre and Elemental Steve are right next to one, and they notice the eyes have gone completely white, and the area around the eyes have gone brownish orange.

"What... I never seen anything like this- What is going on here?"

"It's not just the Violet Steves or any random pony affected..." Elemental Steve warned.

"One of the ponies who are infected... we know them. They're in one of these Violet stations."

"Oh no- Elemental, take me to them," Sabre requested, the concern in his voice clearly noticeable. He hopes it isn't any of the 3 names he has in mind. Elemental Steve starts leading Sabre to a building. Sabre now notices in the flower field is a single floor building with a very high triangle roof made of wood painted purple, with the edges and the top of the roof being unpainted dark oak wood, with a heart made of quartz on the right. The walls are a brighter shade of purple, almost pink. There's a dark oak door in the middle, with a purple glass window on the left, and a small area of lilac flowers on the right.

"Oh, they're in there?"

"Yes," Elemental Steve replied. He opens the door, with him and Sabre walking inside.

There is a desk on the far left corner, made of smooth stone, with a brewing stand on the corner. There is a lantern above, hanging from the top of the roof in the middle. In the left corner on the side with the door and window are some chairs. The floor is made of wood, but is covered with purple carpet. However, they can see to their right, there is Applejack, Granny Smith, Big Mac and the CMC. Apple Bloom's eyes have gone completely white, and the edges around her eyes have gone brownish orange. The other 5 are there for support, and the Violet Steve who controls the building is trying to figure out what the infection is. Sabre looks at Apple Bloom, then looks back at Elemental Steve.

"Thank you for letting me know. This don't look good..."